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NYSE Successfully Carries Out Fully Electronic Trading Session For First Time In 228 Years
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 7:25am | 504Benzinga is covering every angle of how the coronavirus affects the financial world. For daily updates, sign up for our coronavirus newsletter. NYSE conducts its first-ever fully electronic trading without the presence of people on its iconic trading floor on Monday What Happened The New York Stock...
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Markets Little Changed As The Quarter Comes To An End
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 4:34pm | 2316U.S. stocks were little changed as the second quarter comes to an end. Investors and traders are likely spending the last day of the quarter the same way they did to ring in the quarter: questioning the direction of the U.S. economy and wondering what is in store in the coming quarter. One...
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Market Wrap For June 10: Stocks Showed Little Change On Light Volume
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 4:41pm | 2151U.S. stocks were mostly unchanged on a catalyst-light day characterized by low volume. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) has a three-month daily average volume of over 101 million only traded hands 47.8 million times on Tuesday. With little economic or market moving catalysts due in the...
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Market Wrap For April 9: Investors Breathe Sigh Of Relief Over Rate Worries
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 4:35pm | 2359U.S. stocks rose sharply after minutes from the Federal Reserve eased concerns over when the central bank would raise interest rates. The decision to let go of the 6.5 percent unemployment rate threshold for raising interest rates was finalized in early March. Additionally, the Fed's minutes...
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Barron's Recap: Best Mutual Fund Families
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 609This weekend in Barron's online: the top ranked mutual fund families, as well as the prospects for Samsung, Harvard's endowment, Nielsen, Capitol Federal Financial, AmTrust and more. Cover Story "New Heights: Fund Family 2013 Rankings" by Lawrence C. Strauss. Last year was a particularly good...
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Market Wrap For January 15: Bulls Take Over As Economic Growth Remains Healthy
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 5:45pm | 2827The market picked up where it left off Tuesday and recorded a second straight day of strong gains. The Dow posted a triple digit point gain while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all gained as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicated that economic growth remained healthy in most U.S. regions. The...
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Bank of America Resumes Coverage on Financial Exchanges (CBOE, ICE, NDAQ)
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 1:38pm | 738In a research report sent to investors on Tuesday morning, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) announced that it was resuming coverage on publicly traded financial exchanges IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) and Nasdaq OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ), which it rated at Buy, as well as CBOE Holdings (NASDAQ:...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of April 30 (CMCSA, GM, KFT, V)
Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 9:02am | 1279Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 6
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 6:39pm | 1330There will be plenty more quarterly reports this week for analysts and traders to peruse. On the schedule are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Visa (NYSE: V), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 1
Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 10:02am | 1197Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...
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Deutsche Bank Updates 6/24
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 8:10am | 504Deutsche Bank made a number of updates in a research report published today. NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ) had its rating reiterated at Hold. At the same time, however, its price target was lowered from $30 to $27. On Thursday, NASDAQ lost 2.59% of its value to close the day at $23.35. CBOE Holdings...
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Wells Fargo Raises ICE Valuation Range To $140-145 from $130-135
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 10:58am | 28Wells Fargo is raising its valuation range on IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) to $140-145 from $130-135. IntercontinentalExchange currently trades at $125.11.
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J.P. Morgan Bullish on IntercontinentalExchange
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 9:34am | 116J.P. Morgan released its report today on IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) in which it takes a bullish stance on ICE after an acceleration in European open interest growth. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "We came away bullish on the UK outlook and see volumes as currently being...
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Trading and Banking Trends Mixed in October, Deutsche Bank Reports
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 9:26am | 229In this week's Capital Markets Compass, Deutsche Bank reports that thus far the overall banking trends in October have been mixed. And that's just the beginning of the less-than-stellar news. “Trading has also been mixed thus far in October with a pickup in U.S. options, Euro Cash, and U.S. cash...